Fundamental of Physics: Halliday & Resnick

by Jearl Walker

Fundamental of Physics, a Briefly discussion covered all topics

Genres: Physics, Science

3903 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 17, 2021

About the author

Jearl Walker (born 1945 in Florida) is a physicist noted for his book Flying Circus of Physics, first published in 1975; the second edition was published in June 2006. He teaches physics at Cleveland State University.

Walker has also revised and edited the textbook Fundamentals of Physics with David Halliday and Robert Resnick.

Walker is a well known popularizer of physics, and appeared several times on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Walker is known for his physics demonstrations, which have included sticking his hand in molten lead, walking barefoot over hot coals, lying on a bed of nails, and pouring freezing-cold liquid nitrogen in his mouth to demonstrate various principles of physics. Such demonstrations are included in his PBS series, Kinetic Karnival, produced by WVIZ in Cleveland, Ohio.

Walker authored The Amateur Scientist column in Scientific American magazine from 1978 to 1988. During the latter part of this period, he had been the Chairman of the Physics Department at Cleveland State University. He appeared regularly around this time on the long-running CBC radio science program Quirks and Quarks.

He is the first recipient of the Outstanding Teaching Award from Cleveland State's College of Science. The College's Faculty Affairs Committee selected Walker as the first honoree based on his contributions to science education over the last 30 years. In future years, the award will be named "The Jearl Walker Outstanding Teaching Award". The award was presented in a ceremony on April 29, 2005.

Walker graduated with a degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1973.

Reviews

[Beatriz Robalo · Rating 5 out of 5]

When life gives you lemon, make lemonade.
(N é um erro gramatical)

[Ian Garcia · Rating 4 out of 5]

This textbook is a very good introduction to classical and even modern physics. They do a good job covering kinematic, rotational kinematics, electricity and magnetism, and even thermodynamics.
I feel that their later chapters on relativity and quantum mechanics are scarce of vital information and derivations but that is also to be expected. They are simply trying to gloss over these modern physics and it is difficult to give an intuitive understanding of these super complex topics in only a few chapters.
I will say this is definitely a long textbook with lots of words. I feel that the educational community as a whole should try to provide textbooks with more analogies and pictures to develop better conceptual understanding but that’s beside the point.
Great book for beginners and it covers a ton of topics.

[Seth Dickerson · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's surprising very helpful in teach and explaining concepts and the reasoning behind why certain things occur. Very well written and organized.